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The preliminary partial removal of the remains has been approved to continue the excavation to lower levels
The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, today visited the site of San Esteban with the council of the PSOE in the city of Murcia José María Alarcón, José Manuel Abellán, Alfonso Navarro and Marcos Ros.
In the visit, by invitation of Ujaldón own, the CEO explained every detail of the work being carried out at the site and informed the council that the draft socialist partial removal of the remains has been approved for continue to thoroughly dig into the lower levels.
The tastings confirm that indeed there are remnants of the XII and XI, the moment of greatest glory of the Muslim Murcia.
The items to be dismantled, as required by the report issued by Fine Arts and Cultural Rights, should be stored properly to ensure its proper preservation and enhancement.
Asked about the timing of implementation of the excavation and consolidation of the remains, said Ujaldón times are something that does not matter now, while it is crucial to perform excavation work scrupulously.
He also reiterated the technical requirements to preserve the Palacio de San Esteban, listed as a Cultural, and passing through the construction of a screen wall, whose construction, in any case, require lifting the archaeological remains.
Ujaldón recalled that the importance of the remains, as it has maintained since the submission of the report for their conservation is not so much of its monumentality, while elements have not appeared as domes or arches and also the quality of materials used are medium or low, but its value as urban space, allowing the visitor to understand as it was an Arab neighborhood of Murcia.
Thus, as the report notes, "at least a portion of the documented archaeological sites in the Garden of San Esteban, because of their uniqueness, overall value, historical and symbolic, readability, and museological potential positive impact for the future conservation interest to be able to give testimony and show a typical urban area of Murcia Islamic twelfth and thirteenth centuries. "
Source: CARM
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